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Black Americans have been practicing medicine since before the Revolutionary War. And the path has always been challenging. This timeline highlights a brief sample of the enormous contributions that Black Americans have made to the medical profession. As far back as 1721, Onesimus, an enslaved African, described a smallpox inoculation and, in 1783, James Durham became the first Black American doctor. Yet it took until 2018 for the American Medical Association to elect its first Black female Pres…
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